When comparing Antox vs QKSMS, the Slant community recommends QKSMS for most people. In the question“What are the best messaging apps for Android?”QKSMS is ranked 14th while Antox is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose QKSMS is:

Beautiful design

Pro

Allows responding to SMS without opening the app

When a new sms is received, a window will pop up that has the message and allows answering it from there, without having to open the app. It can be dismissed by tapping anywhere else on the screen.

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Per-conversation notification settings

Users can set different notification settings per user as an easy way to know who is messaging without having to look at the actual message.

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Save yourself from sending out bad messages

Through delayed messaging one can set it up so that a message is not sent automatically. This can help for those times that it may be best to think something over before sending out a rash message.

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Readable in day or night due to themes

There are light and dark themes available within the settings which can be switched depending on how light it is around one when using the app. The dark theme can also help to conserve battery when being used as not as much brightness and hence battery will be used.

Pro

Free

The app is available for free with an optional donation IAP that ranges from $1-$10.

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Very active developer who listens to the community

While QKSMS is one of the younger apps, the developer is quickly adding features/fixing bugs.

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Convenient Android Wear support

Those that own an Android Wear device will be able to set it to receive their messages on the Android Wear device making for convenient notifications and easy messaging through not having to take their phone out.

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Easily communicate with groups

Users can communicate with large groups at the same time due to the included group messaging feature. This is convenient when trying to synchronize with friends or colleagues.

Cons

Con

High data usage

Antox uses the Tox protocol which is Peer to Peer, so there will be high data usage and battery drain. WiFi only mode is currently recommended for now.

Con

Still in early development

Antox is still really early in development, being in beta currently.

Con

Battery drain

Antox uses the Tox protocol which is Peer to Peer, so there will be high data usage and battery drain.

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Buggy

There are little annoyances here and there, from dark theme problems making text unreadable to crashing and missing notifications.